The Truth About Slim People review: We rarely see the truth

Nobody wants to eat less or to eat more healthily.
You can tell exactly how much nobody wants to make these simple changes by the enthusiasm for daft diets.
There are people who drink a daily cocktail of maple syrup, cayenne pepper and lemon juice.
There are people who say you shouldn’t eat anything your caveman ancestors wouldn’t have eaten or that you should only eat raw vegetables.
We would say anything, believe anything, rather than take the obvious steps.
Perhaps, though, as The Truth About Slim People (Channel 4) hinted, the steps are not that obvious.
It was easy to hope for some big... read more

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